The annual "Monkey Mountain Hot Spring" event at the Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden here has been drawing increasing ...

Considered messengers of the gods, the macaques are now made to wear costumes, do backflips, and walk on stilts to please crowds. Trainers with the Sen-zu No Sarumawashi performance group in ...

Sex between a snow monkey and sika deer in Japan could reveal new information about bestiality in humans. Credit: Alexandre Bonnefoy There's a snow monkey in Japan who has got a taste for ...

Macaque monkeys in two separate Japanese prefectures have taken the primatology world by storm after they were spotted attempting to mate with Sika deer. The phenomenon, originally observed in a ...

The Tropical Botanical Garden in Hakodate City has prepared a hot spring exclusively for 40 Japanese macaques ... Hokkaido originally had no wild monkeys, with the animals' natural habitat ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Japanese monkeys, living in Jigoku-dani in the Nagano Prefecture, are known for enjoying the warm pools in the area in winter time. Sony Action Cam captured these ...

The food was placed by an employee in the shape of katakana characters for “saru,” the Japanese for “monkey,” thereby forming fluffy “monkey letters.” The population of snow monkeys ...

Dr. Nobuyuki Kawai from Nagoya University in Japan has found that the rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the presence of snake scales as a visual cue. His findings highlight an ...

OITA--A baby monkey named in honor of Shohei Ohtani ... Natural Zoological Garden in Oita welcomed a baby “Nihonzaru” (Japanese macaque) on April 21, the first to be born this year.